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  • Ramanisky20

    FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUC.....

    It’s an infection called loaiasis, a skin and eye disease caused by the loa loa, a parasitic worm endemic to West and Central Africa. (Side note: Do not do a Google image search for “loaiasis.” Seriously. Do not click here.)

    In 2006, Orellana had spent 12 days in Equatorial Guinea in Central Africa, where he was preaching and helping out some missionary friends. Sometime while he was there, he had apparently been bitten by a deer fly, which is how the disease is transmitted to humans: The fly’s bite deposited larvae into his bloodstream, and those larvae grew into worms that crawled through his skin and into his eye.

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